Examples Of Issues In The Great Gatsby

Two people with issues they cannot come face-to-face with, end up causing chaos and destruction through the lives of people their drama has touched. Throughout the novel, Daisy and Tom drag outsiders into their messy affairs which will leave people cleaning up the mess they made after they leave. The three main characters that Daisy and Tom left cleaning up their messes are Gatsby, Nick, and Myrtle. Each character they leave behind is mentally or physically impaired by their horrendous choices on how to deal with issues. Gatsby is dragged throughout the whole book by his love for Daisy. He goes to great lengths to try and please her. He moves in to the house right across the bay to be closer to her. Nick, Daisy’s cousin, moved into the little house right next to Gatsby which is useful when Gatsby and Daisy meet again for the first time in five years. Gatsby threw bizarre parties in hopes Daisy would come to one and meet him again. Once he had Daisy, the parties stopped happening and he no longer needed people around to …show more content…
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life” (Fitzgerald 35). He was the first person to set up Daisy and Gatsby together by inviting them both over to his house at the same time. Gatsby and Daisy instantly click and are thrown back into their younger selves when they were in love. Nick is also involved in Tom’s affair with Myrtle when Tom takes him to go see his mistress. Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby all encourage Nick to drink a lot more than he usually would and he winds up becoming an alcoholic once everyone left. Nick loses a friend he became close to over the summer when Gatsby is killed by Wilson because Daisy wouldn’t take the blame of killing Myrtle. After everyone leaves, Nick has to arrange Gatsby’s funeral by himself and is left with no friends to rely